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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 494, 25 October 1928, Page 6

Former Prohibitionist Pleads for True Temperance MS mwm. Si"' • a 1 HENRY -BOURNE JOY is a famous automobile manufacturer of Detroit. He is now 64 years of age. He Was president of the -Packard Motor Car Co., and is Director of mans Commercial Corporations, as Weil as a Director of the Chamber of Commerce. US.A. He is a Republican in Politics and a Presbyterian in Religion, and a member of the Yale Chapter, Y.M.C.A.. Detroit. June 19th, 1928 A PERSONAL LETTER TO NEW ZEALANDERS I voted for prohibition but for several years I have been outspoken in opposition to what I regard the evil results of the Prohibition Amendment. Because of this opposition, I have letters saying that the President should call out the Army and Navy and shoot down those who break the prohibition regulations, and that I should be in the front rank of those shot down. While these attacks are not pleasant, neither are they materialWe now believe that the records show the futility of prohibition, and that it is a duty to stand up and be counted as advocates of true temperance and wise government. Many of us made the mistake of voting for prohibition to get rid of the vile saloon. I could not foresee the evil results which were to follow; results far more harmful and far reaching than the evils of the saloon. Perhaps the greatest of the many wicked results is the wide-spread disrespect for law and our courts. There are hosts of people who are total abstainers or thoroughly for temperance, who have come to recognise * that the fanatical leadership of extremists has wrought a condition which must be corrected, if we" are to avoid going from bad to worse. I am happy to say there is visible the dawn of a new era when commonsense and tolerance shall again guide us. vVery| | yours; (Henry|B .*Joy For True Temperance Vote Continuance “ Strike out the Two Bottom Lines ” thus- ! vote for National Continuance 4 vote for State Purciia l and control-